Corrigall-Brown Catherine, Ho Mabel
University of British Columbia.
Can Rev Sociol. 2019 Aug;56(3):329-346. doi: 10.1111/cars.12250. Epub 2019 Jul 17.
All organizations, including nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), need funding to survive and fulfill their mandates. What is the best strategy for securing that funding? Should groups work to attract government attention and be a focus of government debate or should they avoid this type of scrutiny? This article uses innovative data to systematically examine how being the subject of debate in parliament is related to NGO funding for Indigenous, women, and environmental groups. We also examine if the relationship between debate and funding is dependent on the political party in power. We use data collected from Canadian Public Accounts, which lists all grants to groups by the federal government, and the index of Hansard, a full record of parliamentary debates at the federal level in Canada. Our findings demonstrate that the relationship between debate and funding is dependent on the issue area. While debate is positively associated with funding in all areas, it is a stronger predictor of funding for environmental and Indigenous groups than for organizations focusing on women. In addition, the party in power is critical for shaping how debate is related to funding. Debate has a much stronger effect on environmental funding when Liberals are in power than it does when Conservatives control the Prime Minister's office. This research shows that NGOs must be strategic when garnering attention to their cause as more debate does not necessarily lead to more funding across issue areas and contexts.
所有组织，包括非政府组织（NGO），都需要资金来维持生存并履行其使命。确保获得这笔资金的最佳策略是什么？各团体应该努力吸引政府关注并成为政府辩论的焦点，还是应该避免这种审查？本文运用创新数据，系统地研究在议会中成为辩论主题与非政府组织为原住民、妇女和环境团体提供资金之间的关系。我们还研究辩论与资金之间的关系是否取决于执政政党。我们使用从《加拿大公共账户》收集的数据，该数据列出了联邦政府向各团体提供的所有赠款，以及《汉萨议事录》索引，这是加拿大联邦层面议会辩论的完整记录。我们的研究结果表明，辩论与资金之间的关系取决于议题领域。虽然在所有领域辩论都与资金呈正相关，但对于环境和原住民团体来说，辩论是比专注于妇女问题的组织更强的资金预测指标。此外，执政政党对于塑造辩论与资金的关系至关重要。自由党执政时，辩论对环境资金的影响比保守党控制总理办公室时要大得多。这项研究表明，非政府组织在为其事业争取关注时必须讲究策略，因为在不同议题领域和背景下，更多的辩论不一定会带来更多的资金。
